Monthly Archives: December, 2004

ROK player launches in U.K. with Sony

KINGSWOOD, United Kingdom-ROK Entertainment Group launched its ROK Player technology in the United Kingdom through a deal with Sony/BMG Music Publishing.The technology allows users...

Pointsec offers Smartphone security software

CHICAGO-Pointsec, which provides enterprise security software for personal digital assistants and smart phones, released its Pointsec for Smartphone product.The product is a new version...

LG claims top spot in U.S. CDMA sales

SAN DIEGO-LG Electronics Co. Ltd. boasted of its gains in the U.S. handset market, claiming the top spot for CDMA sales in the third...

DoCoMo partners with foreign carriers for video calling

TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo, Inc. announced partners for its third-generation video service called World Call. DoCoMo's FOMA video customers will be able to exchange video-phone calls...

Zi buys handwriting-recognition company for $1M

CALGARY, Alberta-Predictive input company Zi Corp. announced its $1 million, all-stock acquisition of privately held handwriting-recognition company Decuma AB. Zi said it will use...

Telus closes offering of former Verizon shares

VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Canadian telecommunications provider Telus Corp. reported the closing of a secondary offering of 48.55 million common shares and 24.94 million non-voting shares...

Samsung releases tiny 128 MB memory card

SEOUL-Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. released a tiny new memory card for mobile phones, which the company said can store up to 128 megabytes. The...

KPN extends i-mode line with new NEC phone

LONDON-Dutch wireless carrier KPN will add a new NEC i-mode handset to its portfolio, according to NEC UK Ltd. NEC said it launched the...

Global Signal ups dividend

SARASOTA, Fla.-Global Signal Inc. said its board of directors has increased its cash dividend for the fourth quarter to 40 cents per share of...

ZigBee Alliance ratifies specification

SAN RAMON, Calif.-The ZigBee Alliance has crowned two years of work with a ratified specification, which will allow interoperability of products from more than...

Verizon to enter wireless consolidation fray?

Verizon Communications Inc. may be getting into the wireless consolidation game with published reports indicating that the telecommunications provider, which controls 55 percent of...

Huawei demonstrates EV-DO at 450 MHz

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-Huawei, the CDMA Development Group and the International 450 Association said they have successfully demonstrated a 450 MHz CDMA2000 1x EV-DO end-to-end...

Cingular won’t oppose Nextel 800 MHz plan

WASHINGTON-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. became the second national mobile-phone carrier to back off from opposing a government plan to reconfigure frequency assignments of Nextel Communications...

RadioShack to sell phones online through InPhonic deal

FORT WORTH, Texas-RadioShack Corp. reported a deal with online wireless distributor and activation provider InPhonic Inc. that will enable RadioShack to begin offering wireless...

Cingular adds Motorola MPx220 to portfolio

Cingular Wireless added another Motorola Inc. phone to its line-up of exclusive devices with the release of the Windows-powered MPx220 for $300 with a...

With $2.6B, NextWave reorg to repay creditors, launch broadband

Following the recent sale of its remaining spectrum licenses to Verizon Wireless for $3 billion, NextWave Telecom Inc. filed its third joint plan of...

NEC to sell EDGE phone on the Web

IRVING, Texas-Since it was unable to score a distribution deal with Cingular Wireless and other GSM carriers, NEC America Inc. plans to sell its...

Nextel launches nationwide wireless priority service

Nextel Communications Inc. launched nationwide wireless priority service capabilities, providing authorized users with priority cellular service during times of emergency. The service moves authorized...

CTIA, IEEE create working group to address issue of faulty batteries

WASHINGTON-Wireless industry officials and engineers expect to meet in San Diego this week to continue work on a mobile-phone battery standard, an effort that...

Cingular creates group to focus on enterprise market

In the wake of its acquisition of AT&T Wireless Services Inc., Cingular Wireless L.L.C. created a new Business Markets Group, which the carrier said...

Flarion reports Flash-OFDM contract with Cellular One in Texas

Flarion Technologies Inc. reported that rural wireless provider Cellular One of Amarillo plans to deploy commercial wireless broadband services using Flarion's Flash-OFDM technology in...

U.K. court ruling allows Motorola to seize Uzan assets

LONDON-In another legal triumph, a High Court has given Motorola Inc. the authority to seize assets belonging to Turkey's Uzan family. The decision confirms...

Industry asks court to dismiss health suits

WASHINGTON-Mobile-phone industry lawyers asked a court here to dismiss six brain-cancer suits, arguing the plaintiffs' complaints are pre-empted by federal law. "The federal government...

Software vendors position for shares of mobile-phone market: PalmSource acquires China MobileSoft, LG partners with SavaJe

LG Electronics Co. Ltd., PalmSource Inc., SavaJe Technologies and China MobileSoft Ltd. all made waves on the operating-system front last week, announcements that further...

Business Briefs

Nortel Networks Ltd. has set Jan. 10, 2005, as the date it will file the unaudited statements for 2003 as well as the first...
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